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1 Say ye to your brethren, My people; and to your sisters, Being compassionated. 2 Contend with your mother, contend ye, for she is not my wife, and I not her husband: for she shall put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3 Lest I shall strip her naked, and I set her as the day of her birth, and I set her as a desert, and I set her as a land of dryness, and I slew her with thirst. 4 And her sons I will not compassionate, for they are the sons of fornications. 5 For their mother committed fornication: she conceiving them acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after those loving me giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, mine oil and my drinks. 6 Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths. 7 And she pursued those loving her, and she shall not overtake them; and she sought them and she shall not find: and she said, I will go and turn back to my former husband, for it was well to me then more than now. Hosea 2:1-7, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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